At the top of a castle in a faraway land there slept a lonely princess. Which best describes the structure of this sentence? A.
This sentence places the subject at the beginning and the verb at the end. B. This sentence uses parallel subjects and verbs. C. This sentence places the object before the verb. D. This sentence uses a parallel structure but flips the position of the words.
Answer: C. This sentence places the object before the verb.
Explanation: In the given sentence "At the top of a castle in a faraway land there slept a lonely princess" we can identify the verb, which is "sleep" in a past form "slept" and the subject of the sentence is "A lonely princess" (it answers the question "who slept?"). The object of this sentence is "At the top of a castle in a faraway land" so we can see that the structure of this sentence is placing the object before the verb.
